Twitter: "Sweden has highest number of reported rapes in Europe only because of immigrants!"

Same Twitter, 5 mins later: "Julian Assange case shows how the definition of rape under Swedish law is ridiculously broad. This would never be rape in another country!"

It's interesting how rape laws and convictions are used by some as a marker of enlightenment...until the accused rapist is white or laws are made which reduce the power of ALL men to sexually abuse. Then, suddenly, rape is about "entrapment" and "radical feminism gone crazy."

What we see with cases like Assange is the speed and willingness of the accused -- and, importantly, their supporters -- to smear sexual assault accusers as sluts, man-haters, liars, gold-diggers and pawns. That damaging legacy will discourage and stain future accusers.

1) This week saw a terrorist mass murder in #Mali where 140 (mostly Muslim) #Fulani died, incl. children & pregnant women. It didn't get much space in the "Western" press compared to what happened in New Zealand. People will tell you diff. in coverage about "cultural proximity."

2) Few problems w/"proximity" argument in global news coverage. First, I'll bet most people in US/Europe didn't have faintest idea who was NZ PM before the Christchurch attacks. Or anything about NZ society. So, what's the "proximity"? This: they're (mostly) white, speak English.

3) Second problem with the "We don't cover Mali because it's not relevant to our audience" argument is that, while not covering Mali, same media companies don't cover poor non-white communities in their OWN countries. So, what's excuse there? Because it ain't lack of "relevance."

1) How Context-Free Bullshit Spreads Online: The Case of The Veiled Woman on the Swedish Billboard.

So, the town of Gävle put this image up showing a local resident. The sign says "Welcome to Gävle" with the woman's name underneath. Because the woman is veiled, some were angry.

2) Of course, the implicit suggestion in many of the articles and tweets was that this woman was somehow selected to be the lone representative for the town of Gävle. That this was THE image to represent the city. Well...that's not quite the case.

3) The woman selected was one of 100 city residents, nominated by fellow residents, to represent the town to the outside world. Images of different people were all over town, and the billboard in question outside the town was digital, and showed a different person every week.

This pic, used by Swedish Sports Confederation, was removed after criticism that it supported the veiling of young girls, and that, to some, showing a veiled girl with a gun was linked to terrorism. Pic taken at sports day where kids were allowed to test different activities.

One of the people who criticized the picture, the Chair of the Swedish Swimming Federation, said that the picture, encouraged "honor oppression: genital mutilation, child marriage and honor violence." Today, she resigned because of those comments.

A comment from a former member of the committee responsible for Stockholm's Olympic bid: "If you ignore the little light-haired boy in the background, and he looked like I did when I was small, you would think that this is a recruiting ad for a militant organization." A disgrace.

Gillard government betrayed Assange. She deliberately passed a new law after talking with the US thereby "creating" a justification for extradition just before her making an embarrassing idiotic claim that wikileaks was illegal. businessinsider.com.au/australian-gov…

More evidence of Australia's betrayal of Assange by colluding with the US. This is from 2010 onwards. Labor party. People involved are the same who were involved in the coup that removed Kevin Rudd as PM. telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…

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